Though I'm usually frank and open about my life outside work, I was reluctant to tell anyone besides my immediate boss about my mother's death.
My most transformational mentoring relationship sprung out of my work for my boss, a bureau chief at the newspaper where I worked.
My boss took my suggested number back to the appropriate channels, and a week later, I had a new job and a higher salary.
"I have to say thank you to all supporters, my boss, my friends and my team-mates because I'd been there six years and I had a good relationship with all people there, " he insisted.
My gig in the studio system ended when my boss Jane Evans encouraged me to leave my full time job in production to focus on product placement and hired me as a consultant.
So, naturally, I turned to more senior members of my team or my boss and bounced ideas off of them, first.
This never happened, and honestly I would be surprised if my former boss even remembers my name.
My boss then contacted my co-workers and clients so no one expected me to be answering emails or phone calls.
My boss specifically cited my deep gadget experience -- and that bag phone -- as selling points that helped me land the job.
This strategy served me well at my first big presentation to my boss, when I was an associate at a large bank.
"Just sit at her computer and type for her, " my boss advised me with my first client, a private-high-school student.
But unlike the intern in Singapore, who was contemplating taking her expensive bag to work, my boss was referring to my good grooming.
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When I tweeted from the pub on a day off the other day, it never occurred to me that my boss was one of my followers, and he hasn't stopped teasing me about it, which is a bit embarrassing.
In my defense, none of these things were outlined in my job description, nor were they in the goals my boss had set out for me.
Ultimately, it was my existing good relationship with my colleague that led me to accept her as my new boss.
Apparently, Cohen thought my former boss hasn't been following my three years of stay-at-home motherhood, with all of its typical battles with a small child's feeding and diaper schedules.
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After realizing how helpful it was hear an objective view of my value, I started gathering intel from people who were similarly non-competitive with me: I asked my former boss for his advice, and my friend who works in finance.
So, naturally I bought a bottle of champagne and went home to draft my resignation letter, planning to hand it to my boss the next morning.
All I cared about was I did my part and I had a finished project to give to my boss.
"Well, the first sign that my new state university academic adviser job was a bad move was the fact that my future boss arrived 35 minutes late for our interview, breezing in after taking two of my future co-workers to lunch, " recalls Carmin Wharton, founder and CEO of e-BlackWomenNetwork.com.
Every January my boss wanted to know how much revenue my department was going to produce for the entire year, and God help me if we missed our number by more than 5% either way.
My boss wants me to spend the whole day at my desk without speaking to another person.
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My boss couldn't have been more understanding this April when my mother died.
My boss-to-be was waiting with a small sign that had my name in large black letters.
My boss at the time appropriately demanded frequent, rigorous re-evaluations of my investment thesis as our short position floundered.
Another aspect of my loss I didn't handle well: communicating with my colleagues and boss about what I needed, and following up with news.
Scott Edelman is a writer and editor, as well as my boss at Blastr.
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